grin

DISREGARD PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS; YOU ARE A ✨WIZARD✨

TornadoCash

I don't agree with this characterization. Early content on these platforms may have been less polished, but these things, [whether blog posts, bedroom vlogs, or tiktok dances] are made with human intention, purpose, and passion. 

AI slop (algorithmic content generation designed to farm engagement), on the other hand, does not have the same intention behind it.

To be clear, not all AI content fits this criteria for slop. There are creatives and artists using these tools to create content or art that is expressive, experimental, and authentic. 

Let's not diminish the value of human creativity by making false equivalencies.

Emerge

That's reasonable.

The point I was trying to make is that the graphic implying that the pre-mainstream era of each platform was a slop era feels disingenuous.  Early platform content on sites like youtube consisted of some genuinely creative people experimenting with new mediums.
 
Garbage content has always existed, but the ratio of authentic human creativity to algorithmic pollution is shifting dramatically because AI slop has virtually no bottleneck.

> made with human intention, purpose, and passion
> designed to farm engagement

i agree with your point about the diff between these, but disagree that early content was primarily the former while ai slop is primarily the latter. there was a ton of both throughout the history of the internet. 

and to the extent that there's more engagement farming now, its because attention has become more financialized not because ai slop is inherently worse than previous slop